Header eelt



Aug. 12 1924.

E. M. GUILLAUME HEADER FELT 1923 2 Sheets-Sheety 1 Filed Cm. V123 v Aug.12 1924.

E. M GUILLAUME HEADER FELT Filed 0G12. 18 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 @neuneuPatented Aug. `12, 1924,

UNITED STATES PATENT dOFFICE.

ERNEST M. GUILLAUME, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T' THEFELTERS im COMPANY, INC., OFBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORBORATION OFMASSACHUSETTS.

HEADER FELT.

" Application mea october 1s, 1923. seran No. eee/.4.20.l

T 0 all whom t may conce/m Be it known ,that I, ERNEST M. GUIL- LAUME, acitizen of the United States, re-

siding at Worcester, in the county of Wor-v 5 cester and State ofMassachusetts, have invented `certain new and useful Improvements inHeader Felt, of which the lfollowing is a specification.

My invention relates in header felt."

The object ofthe invention is to provide a tight and cushioning lit atthe top of a window and .more particularly sliding windows of closedcars, to prevent the ingress of rain, snow, drafts, dust and the like.

This device also has a cushioning eect and eliminates' noise andrattles.

Very often a strip of felt somewhat similar to channel lfelt has beenplaced horizontally across the top of a sedan door. In some instancesthis has been in the form of a velvet covered steel channel, plain feltstrips have also been used for this purpose but with a plain felt stripit has been impossible to get the desired result, orv as snug a lit asis possible where the glass actually bumps into a channel formed for it.

The present invention has been the result of effort to get away fromthis perfectly Hat felt strip as some form of groove in the stripgreatly enhances itsr efficiency and utility for this purpose. Adesideratum therefore is to provide a tight joint at the top which willprevent drafts, rattles, and

to an improvement the ingress of rain, dust, dirt and the like,

which, at the same time, can be made and marketed at a reasonable cost.

The present invention consists of strips of fibrous material securedtogether through the longitudinal center whereby to forni a groove inone of the strips.

It further consists of two strips of felt Stitched together through thelongitudinal center whereby the center of one of the strips iscompressed to form a groove to receive the upper edge of the glass andform a snug fit for the joint.

This invention further consists of a rela* tively hard back strip and arelatively thick and soft facing strip stitched or'otherwise securedtogether through the longitudinal center to form a groove in the centerof the last-named Strip.

In the accompanying drawings:

yFigure lis a section through one form of my device showing it appliedto the top of a window frame;

Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the of a slightly modified yform inwhich the parts -are held together by a single row of stitching. l

The numerals 1 and-2 represent the two strips ofmaterial; These are of afibrous nature preferably although not necessarily offelt, as any otherfibrous or filamentous fabrics that would' meet the requirements might`'be employed. y

I employ a soft piece of felt 2 of about 1A of an inch thick and 1% ofau inch wide for the channel strip and a lighter and thinner weightstrip of felt l which has preferably been heavily sized, or at least ismade relatively hard. These two strips are then stitched togetherthrough the longitudinal center shown in Figs. 1 to 4, by a doublestitching 3 which takes the usual form at the top illustrated in Fig. 3and at the bottom illustrated in Fig. 4.

The very tension of the threads of the stitches 3 and their slightseparation in a double stitch forms a groove 4 at the center somewhat asillustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 which conforms or will conform to the upperedge of the glass 5, thus forming a snug and tight fit when the glass israised to its elevated or closed position as viewed in Fig. l.

In Figs. 5 to 8 the same elements are employed but a single stitch 6instead of a double stitch at the center forms the groove 'i'.

Obviously other stitching might be employed or the strips might befastened together by other means as possibly by staples, if desired, solong as a thicker and heavier channel strip is drawn in at thelongitudinal center to form the groove 4 or 7. While the header stripsmay be made in other form and of other materials it has been founddesirable to employ the hard piece l at the back and the soft thickerstrip 2 at the front for the reason that when these are held togetherthrough the longitudinal center all the pulling is through the soft andthicker piece to form the groove or channel,

In other Words, one of the strips is relatively non-compressihle and theother -is compressilole.

In this Way a very simple but ell'ective and inexpensive header felt visfor-med vfor the air-tight closure of `a vehicle kor .other Window atthe top.

I claim:

l. The combination with a Window frame having a channel in which a glasspane slides, of'a header for the upper portion of `the channel,comprising a Astrip of material adapted to he sea-ted in the channel,and a secondary strip of compressihle ihrous Vmaterial imposed upon the'first-mentioned strip, and means arranged longitudinally of both stripsfor securingthemftogether 'under tension, whereby the compresfsilolestrip is compressedtofform a groove `for receiving an edge of said pane.l

2. As an'article of manufacture, a header adapted for association withthe upper channel cfa frame to receive an edge of a sliding pane,comprising a strip o'f'ffihrous material, a strip of-compressiblefiibro'usfmaterial imposed thereon, and means extending longitudinallyofthe strips for holdingthem together under tension and compressingv"the last-mentioned strip to form a groove to receive cushioninglyanedgefo-such pane.

As an article of manufacture adapted for association with the Lipperchannel of gframe, to receive an impingied` sliding pane, a headercomprising a lstrip of fiat material, a strip of normally flatcompressifhle material superimposed upon the firsto'linaterial, anormally flat strip of lihrous material superimposed thereon, means ofless Width than such pane extending longitudinally of the strips andholding ythem togetherunder tension, the tension being such .as todistort the fibrous stripto form a groove lto lreceive such pane,`:thesurface of the fiihrous kstrip Aadjacent the tensioning means :beingdistorted to `hear `laterally :upon such pane. l

In testimony whereof I aiixmy signature.

4ERNEST M. GUILLAUME.

